Republicans Pledge to America –Image: GOP.gov
Flashback: Remember when RINO’s pledged “We will curb Washington’s spending habits and promote job creation, bring down the deficit and build long term fiscal stability.”
The giant 1,582 page federal budget bill (which nobody read) but the GOP controlled House passed Wednesday, Democrat controlled Senate passed yesterday and Obama signed into law today according to the Associated Press will cost taxpayers nearly $3 Million per word.
WarmCarbs/Obama’s OFA “What is a soap fault exception tho@CoveredCA? Am I being denied insurance because I smell bad?”
M.E. Welman from L.A. “@CoveredCA Seven Anthem ID cards sent for a policy I did not sign or pay. Zero ID cards for policy I DID sign and pay.”
What Others Are Saying@Facebook/Covered California
Amy Bronderslev-Alvord from Upland “I am an insurance agent am having trouble logging in. I was able to last night. However, today I am told ‘not authorized.’ I tried calling SHOP (which is busy) and Customer Service (which says good-bye and hangs up on you) and sat in live chat queue for 2 hours and then was told no one is available to help me when it was my turn…”
Louisa Kwan “After 2 months call every day 8 hour both to Covered CA and Blue Cross wait and wait. Got the same answer, ‘wait and it will come soon.’ Request to talk with a supervisor, eventually she promised to send a special rush request based on my situation. On the 14th of January late evening, I got a call from them and she email me my temp ID. Wow! I am so happy and it won’t work until today. Jan 16, 2014 Start call the doctor to make the appointment…in network doctor–he don’t accept the insurance through Covered California…Call another, another and another, I call around ten different ones. Same answer…if you mention it is the plan through Covered California they will say they don’t have contact with Covered California program…How can I find a doctor? More research later—Why we need to pay for this insurance????? Don’t tell me to wait or call. I really did all the research before I post this.”
Alex Cheng from Long Beach “I have unsuccessfully tried to log in to your web portal for 2 days now. I am trying to use the user name and password I created during the registration process however I keep encountering an “Invalid user name or password” error. Instead of simply allowing me to reset my password as most websites do, I am told that I ‘need to a Customer Service Representative, please call the phone number…’ for which I get a busy signal. Then when I try the ‘online chat’ and waiting for HOURS for my place on the queue, I ultimately get a ‘There are no agents available to chat with you right now. Please try again later’ message. I short, all I am trying to do is to log into your website but there is ABSOLUTELY no way for me to do since there is ABSOLUTELY no way for me to get in contact with anyone at Covered California to resolve my user name/password issue. I cannot adequately express my frustration, I am having with your website. As a California taxpayer, I find your ‘customer service’ to be completely and utterly unacceptable. Instead of ‘a day of live music arts, special guest appearances and hilarious skits’ you should fix your website.”
Scott Saylor from Twin Peaks “I don’t understand. Whenever I try to call, your answering machine answers and then hangs up on me saying ‘good-bye’ without providing any information about any other number I could possibly try to call. Its unacceptable that you simply hang up on the citizens of California without having a waiting queue, without even attempting to answer the phone. It is truly unacceptable. If you have a high call volume, you answer the phones one by one, you don’t hang up on everybody. This is what the employment development department did in 2008…high call volume so we’re just going to cut off our phones! Outrageous. You should be ashamed of yourselves.”
Wayne Major from Ventura “There is all kinds of providers listed but when you contact them to make an appointment they tell you they have no contract with the ‘Covered California’ part of Blue Shield! So WTF? You can list any doctors you want but if they say no we don’t accept ‘Covered California’ what is one to do?”
Eric DaGreat “LOL, trying to get registered on the site and its got a java problem. Freaking ACA is a joke.”
Eric DaGreat (January 14) “OK, so let me get this straight. I’m paying more money for less coverage, creating more profits for insurers because of ObamaCare and on top of that, they need a bailout? WTF? I’ve tried calling my insurer 10 times over the past two days and have not been able to talk to anyone. Ridiculous.”
Related: Krauthammer Ins Co’s Ruined by ObamaCare Will Need Bailout
Todd Hazlett from San Juan Capistrano (Replies) “We are suffering under radical left control, weal right representation and corruption and it will take the majority of us coming together to vote them out.”
Valery Kissel-ODerio from San Diego “I just tried calling and was hung up on. This is a joke! LOL I am still unable to pay my husband’s premium because of a mix-up on your end and I need to speak to a human being to straighten it out! I see a lawsuit written all over this…”
John Pack from Dana Point “Well, your site is not working once again. You get an error message right after you enter the clients info, before the security question comes up. Had to postpone three telephone applications.”
Aimee Pfaff “You sit on hold for hours and hope you don’t get disconnected like I just did after 30 minutes on hold with my 4th call to ‘Covered California’ this week. It is hopeless. Covered CA reps can’t or won’t do anything to help anyone and they have no special # to call the insurance carriers, you can’t get through to the insurance carriers as an agent or consumer and they won’t hire enough people to help resolve all the issues because it would cut in to their profit margins. I am # 104 in the queue on the SHOP line so back to square (one) forced to waste yet another day dealing with this nightmare.”
(The Bell News) Why isn’t this surprising?
Connecticut Democrat State Rep Edwin Vargas (front row center) together with former Connecticut State Rep Ed Gomes (front row left) and Laurie Kennington President of Local 34 Clerical & Technical Workers at Yale (back row seated) were recipients of ‘2013 Amistad Awards’ at the ‘Communist Party USA’ 94th Anniversary last month.
At a Communist Party fundraiser in December, according to the Communist Party own Peoples World Zakiyah Ansari, a member of NYC Mayor De Blasio’s Transition Team, received a Communist Lifetime Achievement Award.
H/T: Pat Dollard
House Speaker John Boehner posts on his Facebook timeline on Wednesday:
“President Obama says he has a pen and a phone he can use to bypass Congress. Pens and phones are nice but we have the Constitution…”
So when will this Congress exercise its Constitutional duty pursuant to Article II Section 4 and put a stop to Obama?
Related: Can the President Rewrite Federal Law? –Andrew Napolitano
Obama’s Public Approval according to Gallup drops to a mere 39% as millions of Americans have lost their health insurance thanks to ObamaCare.
Related: Obama’s Job Approval Declined Steadily Throughout 2013
Rob F from Berkeley@Twitter “I guess the rumor about the painful sign-up for health care with @CoveredCA are true.”
Amanda Coolong from West Hollywood@Twitter “I’ve been attempting to get through on the @CoveredCA line for 2 WEEKS to make my initial payment, now this.”
Brendan Patrick@Twitter “@CoveredCA Got this message a third time.
6 hours of waiting today. How is this acceptable???”
What Others Are Saying…
Erin Kotecki-Vest from Los Angeles@Twitter “Dear @CoveredCA please make Blue Shield of CA send our ID cards or at least put us in the system–we paid on 12-31-13 & I need treatment.”
Erin Kotecki-Vest from Los Angeles@Twitter “The good news is @BlueShieldCA has new customers, the bad news is we paid 12-31-13 & are not in the system yet, have no ID cards & I need CHEMO.”
Erin Kotecki-Vest from Los Angeles@Twitter “As you can imagine @BlueShieldCA I can’t pay out of pocket for my treatment which is why we went with you cc: @CoveredCA.”
Lisa Pedersen@Twitter “My kid, who can’t get health care thanks to @CoveredCA never replying via email like they promised, went to Planned Parenthood and…”
Wyman Dickerson@Twitter “CoveredCA so found out my adult daughter’s Ob/Gyn won’t accept either. What kind of ‘insurance’ is this anyway?”
Karen L Prante from Southern California@Twitter “@CoveredCA great just great. That means no one will be answering the phone, why all this anxiety ‘get covered get covered’ but no working system.”
Melissa@Twitter “@CoveredCA Why do I keep an ‘error’ sign when I’m trying to submit my application?”
Littleman Mendez@Twitter “Please @CoveredCA give me a break. I have coverage but the system isn’t working, the coverage I paid for isn’t in effect for me.”
DJ Holte from Hollywood@Twitter “Had to really strain to understand the Operator @CoveredCA Sounded like she had marbles in her mouth (which I’m guessing isn’t covered).”
Related: So You Found ‘Covered California’ is Hackable, Now What?
(WSJ) China, Honk Kong ranks (No 1) the United States falls to (No 12) in the ‘2014 Index of Economic Freedom’ released today by the Heritage Foundation/The Foundry which points out, the U.S. has declined six places since Obama took office nearly 5 years ago.
On the 12 January, 2012 Open Market.org reported that the steady decline of the United States economic freedom could easily be attributed to the implementation of ObamaCare, together with its burdensome over regulations and costs.
Justin Bieber Should Take His Own Advice
(FOX News Los Angeles) L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputies executed a search warrant of Justin Bieber’s Calabasas home today as part of a follow-up investigation into a vandalism allegation, that the immature singer threw eggs at a neighbor’s residence.
Deputies did make a felony drug arrest according to the LA Daily News while at the Bieber residence of Rapper Xavier Smith, aka/Lil Za, who is currently in jail being held in lieu of a $20,000 bond.
“I Kind of Like the One I Saw Outside My Starbucks in California”
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